Boonville Definitions ordinance (§ 14-4)

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated herein:

Antique, curio or relic firearm means any firearm so defined by the National Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. Title 26, Section 5845, and the United States Treasury/ Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, 27 CFR Section 178.11:

(1) Antique firearm is any firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898, said ammunition not being manufactured any longer; this includes any matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock, percussion cap or similar type ignition system, or replica thereof;

(2) Curio or relic firearm is any firearm deriving value as a collectible weapon due to its unique design, ignition system, operation or at least 50 years old, associated with a historical event, renown personage or major war;

Blackjack means any instrument that is designed or adapted for the purpose of stunning or inflicting physical injury by striking a person, and which is readily capable of lethal use;

Concealable firearm means any firearm with a barrel less than 16 inches in length, measured from the face of the bolt or standing breech;

Deface means to alter or destroy the manufacturers or importer's number or any other distinguishing number or identification mark;

Drug paraphernalia means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance, an illegal smoking product or an imitation controlled substance.

Explosive weapon means any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb or similar device designed or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death, serious physical injury, or substantial property damage; or any device designed or adapted for delivering or shooting such a weapon;

Firearm means any weapon that is designed or adapted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive;

Firearm silencer means any instrument, attachment, or appliance that is designed or adapted to muffle the noise made by the firing of any firearm;

Gas gun means any gas ejection device, weapon, cartridge, container or contrivance other than a gas bomb, that is designed or adapted for the purpose of ejecting any poison gas that will cause death or serious physical injury, but not any device that ejects a repellant or temporary incapacitating substance;

Intoxicated means substantially impaired mental or physical capacity resulting from introduction of any substance into the body;

Knife means any dagger, dirk, stiletto, or bladed hand instrument that is readily capable of inflicting serious physical injury or death by cutting or stabbing a person. For purposes of this chapter, "knife" does not include any ordinary pocketknife with no blade more than four inches in length;

Knuckles means any instrument that consists of finger rings or guards made of a hard substance that is designed or adapted for the purpose of inflicting serious physical injury or death by striking a person with a first enclosed in the knuckles;

Machine gun means any firearm that is capable of firing more than one shot automatically, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger;

Marijuana means any Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, or Cannabis ruderalis, hybrids of such species, or any other strains commonly understood within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as resin extracted from the plant (e.g., hashish) or marijuana-infused products. "Marijuana" does not include industrial hemp containing a crop-wide average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed three-tenths of one percent on a dry weight basis, or commodities or products manufactured from industrial hemp.

Projectile weapon means any bow, crossbow, pellet gun, slingshot or other weapon that is not a firearm, which is capable of expelling a projectile that could inflict serious physical injury or death by striking or piercing a person; Rifle means any firearm designed or adapted to be fired from the shoulder and to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire a projectile through a rifled bore by a single function of the trigger;

Short barrel means a barrel length of less than 16 inches for a rifle and 18 inches for a shotgun, both measured from the face of the bolt or standing breech, or an overall rifle or shotgun length of less than 26 inches;

Shotgun means any firearm designed or adapted to be fired from the shoulder and to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire a number of shot or a single projectile through a smooth bore barrel by a single function of the trigger;

Spring gun means any fused, timed or nonmanually controlled trap or device designed or adapted to set off an explosion for the purpose of inflicting serious physical injury or death;

Switchblade knife means any knife which has a blade that folds or closes into the handle or sheath; and

(1) That opens automatically by pressure applied to a button or other device located on the handle; or

(2) That opens or releases from the handle or sheath by the force of gravity or by the application of centrifugal force.

(Code of 1958, §§ 49.06, 49.08; Ord. No. 3932, § 1, 6-7-04; Ord. No. 4660, § 2, 1-2-24)